The Sum, Not Just the Parts
How and why to think holistically about your network instead of optimising one box at a time.
How and why to think holistically about your network instead of optimising one box at a time.
Why the people you know move your career further than the certifications you hold.
On building community in networking, and why connecting people compounds in a way technical skill alone does not.
Where AI is actually landing in network operations, and where it is still a slide.
A practitioner conversation on automation and AI without the vendor framing.
Panel on whether the complexity in modern networks is essential or self-inflicted.
Pulling apart what SASE means once you remove the category name.
Where telemetry and AI actually help the handoff between network, security and platform teams.
A walk through SD-WAN architecture and where it genuinely changes the operating model.
The podcast conversation behind the NFD37 delegate session of the same name.
Delegate session arguing that virtual network isolation is not the air gap people think it is.
Long-form conversation on the career, the community and the road from dial-up helpdesk to service provider engineering.
Presenting USNUA to the Field Day delegates. A vendor-neutral environment to talk networks.
Breaking down where Fortinet's SD-WAN architecture differs from the rest of the field.
An honest account of leaving a job to start something, and what nobody tells you first.
Scaling a healthcare network through acquisition without the WAN becoming the bottleneck.
Unpacking IRR and RPSL for people who inherited a routing policy they did not write.
How a regional user group became a national practitioner community, and why that is harder than it sounds.
Meetups for network engineers, and what makes one work.
Operating dual-stack on an exchange fabric, from the board side and the switch side.
The parts of a technical career that do not go on a résumé.
Network as a service, what it actually replaces and what it quietly does not.
Enterprise WAN economics with the people who count the cables.
Translating an architecture decision into something a CFO signs.
A market read from inside it, before the consolidation.
The obituary was premature, and the reasons why are the interesting part.
What the technology actually did once it hit production networks.
Why the org chart breaks the network design more often than the vendor does.
Building network infrastructure and community from Cleveland.
An early conversation on where enterprise connectivity was heading.
I am happy to come on and talk about transport economics, peering, internet exchanges, network automation, practical AI in operations, or what running a small consulting practice actually looks like. No prep deck required.
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